tree 8b4d251bf78965ac7501bea9011786b8255a3312
parent 5aa4b32fc86408705337e941ed716880c63d1590
author Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no> 1266461221 +0000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1266536588 -0800

net: TCP thin linear timeouts

This patch will make TCP use only linear timeouts if the
stream is thin. This will help to avoid the very high latencies
that thin stream suffer because of exponential backoff. This
mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol
and the stream is identified as thin. A maximum of 6 linear
timeouts is tried before exponential backoff is resumed.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>